LEADERSHIP AS A KEY TO THE

NURSING
PROFESSIONALIZATION IN
INDONESIA
Ferry Efendi
Abstract:
Nursing Leadership is a great concern among health personnel and nursing service personnel. Nurses
lead and manage nursing care for patients, families, aggregates, and communities in a variety of
settings, ranging from ambulatory, community, to hospital. Nurses also lead and manage care across
the health-care continuum, including primary: health promotion and prevention; secondary: skilled,
long term, and rehabilitative care; and tertiary: emergent, urgent, and acute care. Developing future
nurse leaders in Indonesia is one of the greatest challenges faced by the nursing profession. This
paper focuses on the basic concept of nursing leadership and the present and future leadership
movement of Indonesian nurses. A clear understanding of these issues is critical to face tomorrow
challenges within organizational context